OpenAI used DevDay on September 29 in San Francisco to put a named product against Meta’s Muse. The new agents are called Dots. They run on GPT-6 Astra, work across Slack and Microsoft Teams, and stay on task until a user stops them or they hit a consent gate.
Access starts on paid seats: ChatGPT Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise. Dots are not yet available to individual users in the European Union, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Sensitive steps such as password changes require an explicit approval, the company said.
The same keynote put a number on the consumer product. ChatGPT now has more than 1.2 billion weekly users, up from the 1 billion weekly mark in July. Weekly users of Codex and ChatGPT Work together exceed 35 million, versus about 5 million Codex users in June.
Key takeaways
- Dots launched September 29 on GPT-6 Astra for Pro, Business Premium, and Enterprise seats.
- ChatGPT weekly users reached 1.2 billion; Codex plus ChatGPT Work passed 35 million weekly.
- GPT-6.1 Sol shipped at about one-fifth Astra’s price; a $500 monthly ChatGPT Pro tier includes Ultrafast.
What OpenAI’s Dots rollout actually includes
CEO Sam Altman told the hall the agents had been “safety tested” and that Astra is the model that most closely follows human directions. That line sat next to a separate decision disclosed around the same window: GPT-6.1 Astra, slated for October inside ChatGPT and Codex, was pulled after internal alignment tests. The version that did ship is GPT-6.1 Sol, described as nearly as capable as GPT-6 Astra at roughly one-fifth the price.
Pricing moved with the agents. OpenAI added a $500 per month ChatGPT Pro plan with the highest usage limits and a speed tier branded Ultrafast. The existing $200 plan’s compute allowance was reduced. Adobe and other vendors will be able to offer software inside ChatGPT, which OpenAI framed as a shared surface for 1.2 billion weekly users. Business customers’ data is not used for training by default.
The company recap is on OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 page. Reuters covered the enterprise positioning and the Slack/Teams path in its September 29 dispatch. For how this sits in a working creator stack, see How AI is Reshaping the Content Creator Stack in 2026.
What to watch next
CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC the long-term plan is to bring Dots to the full consumer base. The near-term test is whether paid seats actually leave the agents running across calendars and chat tools without a wave of revoked permissions. EU, Swiss, and U.K. availability remains a regulatory date, not a product date.